Learning Goal: I’m working on a humanities project and need guidance to help me learn.
Society may be defined as a collection of people in a specific territory who share the same norms, values, and culture. These people work together, with the guidance of social norms, to maintain and sustain harmony in society. Some may even compare society to a single functioning organism. However, in order to study society, we must be able to dissect it aspectstheir culture, norms, social institutions, social groups, and traditions and customsto further determine and describe the dynamics among them. To do this, we must first give focus to arguably the most fundamental element of society its members.
